{"id":49560,"date":"2025-09-28T23:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T23:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/49560\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T23:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T23:29:08","slug":"stripped-of-the-fizz-and-energy-of-marian-keyes-glorious-joyous-writing-the-walsh-sisters-is-left-naked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/49560\/","title":{"rendered":"Stripped of the fizz and energy of Marian Keyes\u2019 glorious, joyous writing, \u2018The Walsh Sisters\u2019 is left naked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">It\u2019s only the first episode, and there\u2019s a heap of pressure on it, but this is an iffy start to the TV take on the beloved book series\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Co-writer Stefanie Preissner (centre) with the\u00a0cast of \u2018The Walsh Sisters\u2019, M\u00e1ir\u00e9ad Tyers, Danielle Galligan, Caroline Menton and Louisa Harland. Photo: RT\u00c9\/Enda Bowe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/e_f792_7bd9b2ad8428.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Co-writer Stefanie Preissner (centre) with the\u00a0cast of \u2018The Walsh Sisters\u2019, M\u00e1ir\u00e9ad Tyers, Danielle Galligan, Caroline Menton and Louisa Harland. Photo: RT\u00c9\/Enda Bowe<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">We must start by saying that it is unfair to review a television series on the basis of its first episode.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">But we must also make it clear that RT\u00c9 is releasing The Walsh Sisters one precious episode at a time, drop by drop, like a serialised novel by Charles Dickens in the nineteenth century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s only the first episode, and there\u2019s a heap of pressure on it, but this is an iffy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[36044,93,61,60,13693,6085],"class_list":{"0":"post-49560","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-ann-marie-hourihane","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-marian-keyes","13":"tag-rte"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}